Writer Quotes · Page 596

“There are as many versions of a book as there are readers.”

— Matt Haig

“Writing a book is like giving birth. Marketing a book is like giving birth in the 12th century.”

— John Heartfield

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

— Jane Austen

I had a lot of really emo stories as a kid. I wrote a lot of fan fiction.

— Marie Lu

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

— Evan Esar

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

— Stephen Fry

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

— Rebecca West

A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.

— Nunnally Johnson

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is…

— Brenda Ueland

I'm not trying to take over the world, but I find it really rewarding to write, and I thrive on learning.

— Bryce Dessner

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

— Elliot Perlman

“There's not that much known, but there's a lot you can write about what's not known, why it isn't known and who…

— Richard Ellis

I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been…

— Thomas Perry

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use…

— Alice Hoffman

I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom.…

— Katherine Center

Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

— Sophie Kinsella

I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I…

— W. H. Auden

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute…

— Anonymous

You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that…

— Brenda Ueland

To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired…

— Virginia Woolf

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into…

— Caleb Carr

“All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. .…

— Anne Lamott

Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier…

— Leni Zumas

The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put…

— Sara Sheridan

My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.'

— Hillary Clinton

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.” - Bell Hooks”

— Win Quier

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

— Barry Hannah

If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books.

— James Bryce

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

— Thomas Perry

“Literature, sharing a wonderful story, is what brings the world together.”

— Elizabeth Spann Craig

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life.

— Dinty W. Moore

I think David S. Goyer is definitely a visionary writer and filmmaker.

— Bear McCreary

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters

“I love your books when I read them I can't stop reading them.”

— Charlie Higson

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

— Susan Sontag

“You should enjoy every seconded for reading”- Ayah”

— Ayah

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

— Robert Silverberg

“Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.”

— Sara Sheridan

I try not to read my own books just because I would rather read somebody else.

— Peter Orner